Sylheti Nagri

Sylheti Nagri
ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ
Sylheti Nagari alphabet
Script type
Time period
c. 15th century CE to present
DirectionLeft-to-right Edit this on Wikidata
LanguagesMiddle Bengali[note 1]
Sylheti
Related scripts
Parent systems
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Sylo (316), ​Syloti Nagri
Unicode
Unicode alias
Syloti Nagri
U+A800–U+A82F
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Brahmic scripts
The Brahmi script and its descendants
Northern Brahmic
Southern Brahmic

Sylheti Nagri or Sylheti Nāgarī (Sylheti: ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ, síloṭi nagri, pronounced [sílɔʈi nagɾi]), known in classical manuscripts as Sylhet Nagri (ꠍꠤꠟꠦꠐ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ) as well as by many other names, is an Indic script of the Brahmic family.[5][6] The script was historically used in the regions of Bengal and Assam, that were east of the Padma.[7] It was primarily used in the eastern part of the Sylhet region, to document poetry known as puthis.[6] In the course of the 20th century, it has lost much ground to the standardised Eastern Nagari script. Printing presses for Sylheti Nagri existed as late as into the 1970s, and in the 2000s, a Unicode font was created for the script.[8]

Historically the script was transcribed in Middle Bengali, though having similar characteristics to the more popular Dobhashi literary dialect, it was distinguished for its phonological influence from Sylheti.[1] It is also claimed that the orthography of the script equates with Sylheti, reflecting the phonetic and grammatical features of the vernacular, it provided a simpler and more precise representation than the more prevalent Bengali script.[9] Sylheti Nagri therefore represented a unique literary culture of the Sylhet region.[10][11] Contemporarily, the script is being revived by some as a key identity marker of Sylhet's cultural heritage.[12]

  1. ^ a b Thibaut d'Hubert, Alexandre Papas (2018). Jāmī in Regional Contexts: The Reception of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī’s Works in the Islamicate World, ca. 9th/15th-14th/20th Century. pp.667-678. Brill.
  2. ^ Daniels, Peter T. (2008). "Writing systems of major and minor languages". In Kachru, Braj B.; Kachru, Yamuna; Sridhar, S. N. (eds.). Language in South Asia. Cambridge University Press. p. 291. ISBN 978-0-521-78141-1.
  3. ^ Masica, Colin (1993). The Indo-Aryan languages. p. 143.
  4. ^ "Documentation in support of proposal for encoding Syloti Nagri in the BMP" (PDF). unicode.org. 1 November 2002. p. 5. In the opinion of Qadir (1999) and of Professor Clifford Wright of SOAS (personal communication), Syloti Nagri is a form of Kaithi, a script (or family of scripts) which belongs to the main group of North Indian scripts.
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  8. ^ Constable, Peter; Lloyd-Williams, James; Lloyd-Williams, Sue; Chowdhury, Shamsul Islam; Ali, Asaddor; Sadique, Mohammed; Chowdhury, Matiar Rahman (1 November 2002). "Proposal for Encoding Syloti Nagri Script in the BMP" (PDF).
  9. ^ David Kane (2021). Puthi-Pora. Blurb. p. 159. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  10. ^ Bhattacharjee, Nabanipa (2013). "'We are with culture but without geography': locating Sylheti identity in contemporary India". In Fazal, Tanweer (ed.). Minority Nationalisms in South Asia. Routledge. pp. 57–58. ISBN 978-1-317-96647-0.
  11. ^ Arupjyoti Saikia (2023). The Quest for Modern Assam: A History 1942-2000. Penguin Random House India Private Limited.
  12. ^ Introducing the Sylheti language and its speakers, and the SOAS Sylheti project Candide Simard, Sarah M. Dopierala, E. Marie Thaut (2020). Language Documentation and Description 18, pp.1-22. Retrieved on 2024-09-19.


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